Are you 100% honest with your food diary?

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  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    Yes. Lying to myself didn't work out well for me and I gained back 20 lb of the 42 lb I originally lost.

    I am now accurately logging and weighing EVERYTHING. It turns out, I totally suck at guesstimating. I was on a year long plateau and eventually gained. I really thought there was something wrong with me, that I was physically incapable of losing weight. Now that I'm accurately eating my alloted amounts, I'm losing 1.5 lb/week steadily. The food scale is my best friend. I even carry it with me and measure food at restaurants. In my experience, everything, even packaged food, is more than the label says it is.

    Edited to add this video, please watch it if you think you are good at measuring your portions out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY
  • Hbazzell
    Hbazzell Posts: 899 Member
    To the best of my ability. I have to estimate the serving size of food at restaraunts but at home I measure my food.
  • AllisonConnell1301
    AllisonConnell1301 Posts: 98
    Pretty close to it. If I have a cherry, I don't put it in. Now if I have 3 cherries, I will.
    If I take one little tiny bite of something that say my mom is eating, I don't count it.
    Other than that, I count everything!
  • volume77
    volume77 Posts: 670 Member
    EVERYBODYS A ****IN LIAR.
  • volume77
    volume77 Posts: 670 Member
    No, I don't. I use a food scale regularly and I try to track everything but I probably overeat by 100-150 cals if not more.
    I also very firmly believe that most people eat more than they think.




    THIS
  • 8goodgirl0
    8goodgirl0 Posts: 127 Member
    Yes. Lying to myself didn't work out well for me and I gained back 20 lb of the 42 lb I originally lost.

    I am now accurately logging and weighing EVERYTHING. It turns out, I totally suck at guesstimating. I was on a year long plateau and eventually gained. I really thought there was something wrong with me, that I was physically incapable of losing weight. Now that I'm accurately eating my alloted amounts, I'm losing 1.5 lb/week steadily. The food scale is my best friend. I even carry it with me and measure food at restaurants. In my experience, everything, even packaged food, is more than the label says it is.

    Edited to add this video, please watch it if you think you are good at measuring your portions out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY

    LOVE your profile pic
  • stevenleagle
    stevenleagle Posts: 293 Member
    I try to be as accurate as possible. Especially now that I have my fitbit. I actually take joy in logging the good, the bad and the ugly as it really is interesting seeing the correlation between eating right and results (even if they sometimes feel disconnected a little!)
  • Elle408
    Elle408 Posts: 500 Member
    When I log, I log everything, otherwise there really is no point to logging at all! I even logged a week of binges, about 4-5 days of 5000+ calories each day, I needed to see it to see what damage I was doing to myself.
  • bargetze
    bargetze Posts: 2
    Mostly yes. But in some situations (Restaurants, being invited) you can only guess the approx. amount of calories.... To be on the save side, add an cardio lesson in this day and you can be shure, your calories are not too high.... ;-))
  • agulamali
    agulamali Posts: 44 Member
    I don't include spices, but just about everything else, yes. I think it's important to log everything. A few nuts can be like 100 calories and the margin of error in producing a calorie deficit is very slim.

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